Television Quotes

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

~ Andy Warhol

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

~ Richard M. Nixon

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

~ Edward Hirsch

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

~ Hanna Rosin

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

~ Harry Dean Stanton

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

~ David Frost

The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone a whole scene or the full episode.

~ Stephanie Beatriz

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

~ Keith Olbermann

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

~ Jerry Springer

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

~ Richard J. Daley

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

~ Helen Mirren

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

~ John Madden

If I was applying for a legal position, I would highlight my experience working for the San Francisco-L.A. DA's office, and I would mention some of the high-profile cases I did, but if I was looking for another television job, I would gloss over that, and I'd mention the highlight reel of what I did in television.

~ Kimberly Guilfoyle

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

~ Andrew Shue

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

~ J. J. Abrams